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One of the things that I’ve seen at a number of the Windows 8 Developer Camps that we’ve been running across the country is that a subset of the .NET developers that are coming along are confronted with something that they haven’t seen before – asynchronous support in the compiler which in C# shows up...
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I was writing a short talk about the Async CTP and as part of that, I wrote this little WPF form which goes off to my local web server to grab an image and display it; produces when you click on the “Get Image” button that that image is just served up by my local web server and accessed with an HTTP...
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I did a couple of sessions at DevWeek this week and had a really good time meeting up with various folks and chatting about technologies. My sessions were on; VB and C# in Visual Studio 2010 Parallel Extensions in Visual Studio 2010 Silverlight and HTML/Javascript interoperability (in Silverlight 2)...
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Eric has been beavering away to put together a resource site for UK companies that are working with Visual Basic 6 – click the big picture below to check it out; Some of the highlights include; A great prize draw to win a free copy of a migration tool from Artinsoft or Code Architects (We have...
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I’ve been thinking a little this week about C# 4.0, VB 10 and the new dynamic abilities. That is, what happens when I do something like; static void M a i n ( string [ ] a r g s ) { d y n a m i c o = G e t S o m e O b j e c t ( ) ; o . A d d ( 1 0 1 ) ; } static object G e t S o m e O b j e c t ( ) ...
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Someone asked me if I had a simple sample of how to read/write documents into a database table using FILESTREAM in SQL Server 2008. I set about it. Firstly, I had to find out how to switch FILESTREAM on in the RTM of SQL Server. At times like this you need Bob Beauchemin to tell you how it's done and...